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2024-03-25 23:45:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18, 19, 21, and 24 March 2024
[…] Wotan and Fricka, a one-way mirror from Hunding’s dwelling revealing the god’s Erich Mielke-like office, from which his own brand of state security (failings pointed out unsparingly both by Fricka and, more sympathetically, by Wagner) may be dispensed. Perhaps surprisingly, given the lack of an object for the ring, there is a sword, which in this particular context imparts a sense, if not quite of playacting, then of enforced roleplay (an echo, perhaps, of Tcherniakov’s Aix Carmen). Siegmund (Robert Watson) and Sieglinde (Vida Miknevičutė) Forcible return of the Volsung hero to the facility proper, or to more intense observation within, is at least as shocking as, in the previous instalment, Alberich’s not dissimilar bundling off, courtesy of research centre heavies, and approaches Fafner’s horrifying gun-murder of Fasolt. Violence is omnipresent both in the Ring and Tcherniakov’s reading of it, whatever Wotan (‘Nichts durch Gewalt!’) might claim. We might also […]
2024-02-02 16:03:00
Written on Skin, Deutsche Oper, 1 February 2024
Images: WRITTEN ON SKIN, Regie: Katie Mitchell, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Premiere: 27. Januar 2024, copyright: Bernd UhligProtector – Mark Stone Agnès – Georgia Jarman First Angel, The Boy – Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Second Angel, Marie – Anna Werle Third Angel, John – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Angel archivists – Leander Gaul, Yasmina Giebeler, Milli Keil, Maximilian ReisingerDirector – Katie MitchellRevival director – Dan AylingDesigns – Vicki MortimerLighting – Jon ClarkDramaturgy – Sebastian Hanusa Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Marc Albrecht (conductor) More than a decade has passed since I first saw George Benjamin’s second opera, Written on Skin, at Covent Garden. The premiere, both of the work and Katie Mitchell’s well-travelled production, took place at Aix in 2012. Now it reaches, for the first time, Berlin in a further revival of Mitchell’s staging for the Deutsche Oper. It is my fourth hearing, since I attended both the Royal Opera’s 2017 revival and, the year […]
2023-11-25 14:00:04
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Simon Rattle conducts Christian Gerhaher, Malin Bystrom, Thomas Blondelle, Brindley Sherratt, and Peter Hoare in a performance from Aix-en-Provence recorded this summer
2023-10-28 07:22:00
Exploring his musical roots: conductor Duncan Ward chats about his jazz-inspired, Eastern European & French music coming up with the London Symphony Orchestra
Duncan Ward and Philharmonie Zuidnederland The conductor Duncan Ward has two concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) coming up, one featuring music by Gary Carpenter, Barber and Abel Selaocoe as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival [16 November 2023, further details], and the other featuring music by Bartok, Janacek, Chausson and Debussy with soloist Isabelle Faust [23 November 2023, further details]. Duncan is chief conductor of Philharmonie Zuidnederland (South Netherlands Philharmonic) and music director of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, a new position created by the Festival d'Aix. Duncan Ward (Photo: Hugo Thomassen)Both of Duncan's programmes with the LSO are typically eclectic. The works in his first concert seem, at first sight, to only have a tangential relationship to jazz, but he assures me that this is not the case. He describes Gary Carpenter's music as funky, with a distinct jazz influence and his piece Dadaville includes raucous saxophone and trombone solos, uses an expanded drum […]
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